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zaik

4,386 karmajoined hace 5 años
In love with Internet Standards, free software and open data.

Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.

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Package Management as Org Chart

nesbitt.io
2 points·by zaik·hace 8 horas·0 comments

AI could keep poor countries poor

newsletter.deenamousa.com
3 points·by zaik·anteayer·1 comments

DOGE Shrank the Payroll, Not the Deficit

rubbishtalk.com
19 points·by zaik·hace 4 días·0 comments

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

blog.prosody.im
193 points·by zaik·hace 5 meses·209 comments

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

mastodon.matrix.org
141 points·by zaik·el año pasado·169 comments

comments

zaik
·hace 4 días·discuss
Link to the actual research?
zaik
·hace 5 días·discuss
No packages yet: https://repology.org/projects/?search=sneakerweb
zaik
·hace 5 días·discuss
Gajim recently got a modern PGP implementation: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/
zaik
·hace 5 días·discuss
Thank you for contributing! The task of mapping every street and business in the world sounds impossible, but openstreetmap.org does really well.
zaik
·hace 10 días·discuss
I run an XMPP server (Prosody) on Arch Linux since 2020. I upgrade and restart once every week and so far catastrophe has only struck once.
zaik
·hace 17 días·discuss
Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
zaik
·hace 18 días·discuss
> sooooo much technical misinformation

Especially for math, were I feel like people generally agree on what is true and what is not, this seems unusual. Can you point to an instance of misinformation?
zaik
·hace 19 días·discuss
I usually just consult my handy sheet of BNF rules while speaking Japanese.
zaik
·hace 20 días·discuss
> everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years

I don't think this will happen. Human desire to understand how things work will still be around in 50 years.
zaik
·hace 20 días·discuss
Is the formula for E_a[X] trivial? I don't see it immediately...
zaik
·hace 21 días·discuss
You don't have to get a patch into nixpkgs, just use their machinery.
zaik
·hace 22 días·discuss
That sounds like a good application of Item Response Theory (IRT).
zaik
·hace 22 días·discuss
If you decide to create a package for the project in nixpkgs, patch-shebangs.sh should do it for you, no?
zaik
·hace 30 días·discuss
If the bunch of graphics cards becomes truly more efficient, business owners who want to hire humans will not be able to compete.
zaik
·el mes pasado·discuss
Yes, but I believe there is a symlink from /etc to the Nix store, so systemd can find them.
zaik
·el mes pasado·discuss
Spoiler: In the end it is revealed that the surveillance screen wasn't actually switched off. Let's see how it works out in Meta's case...
zaik
·el mes pasado·discuss
b) Or you could take the compiled units from /etc/systemd and copy them wherever
zaik
·el mes pasado·discuss
Since AI is so smart now, these problems will surely be fixed in no time!
zaik
·hace 2 meses·discuss
https://archive.ph/oMcFr
zaik
·hace 2 meses·discuss
> who immediately send that money right back to the tech companies to pay for subscriptions, automated food delivery, or digital entertainment.

Very optional consumption.